This false-color image shows Escherichia coli. Image credit: Geralt.
‘Superbug’ bacteria affect two million people and kill at least 23,000 Americans...
The genome of Neanderthals contained harmful gene variants that made them around 40 percent less reproductively fit than modern humans. And non-Africans...
A multinational team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has found four genes that impact nose shape.
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In a paper published in the journal Genetics, scientists from the University of North Dakota and the University of Minnesota present multiple lines of...
In a large-scale international study, researchers have identified three genetic variants associated with subjective well-being (happiness), two variants...
An international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University has identified a specific gene that within a year helped spur a permanent...
Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes disappeared from the genome of modern humans long ago, suggests a new study published this week in the American Journal...
The genome of the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla) has been sequenced at a high level of quality beginning to approach that of the...
Dr. David Reich from Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have produced a world map of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in 120 diverse populations....
The first gene identified for graying hair has been discovered by an international team of researchers.
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Sea sponges appeared on our planet about 640 million years ago, much earlier than any other animal, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings...
A multinational group of researchers has found strong genetic evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens...
A large team of scientists led by Vanderbilt University geneticist John Capra has found surprising correlations between Neanderthal-derived DNA and disease...
A large multinational team of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole genome of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius), uncovering several traits...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Veronika Laine from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Dr. Martien Groenen from Wageningen University,...
According to a study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, dog domestication may have caused harmful genetic changes.
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Work done by Dr Jessica Cooke Bailey of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and co-authors has led to the discovery of three genes that...
Interbreeding of anatomically modern Homo sapiens with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) around 40,000 years ago may have left humans with gene variants...
